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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

    Vocabulary Clinic

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Group Work: Debates and Directions

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/10/20172 Comments

Group work is a lively topic that draws some controversy and debate. Some teachers see it as an essential component of any lesson, whereas others spurn group work and prefer a steady …

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Group Work: An Essential Guide

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley22/05/20166 Comments

Many people herald the wisdom of crowds, but ask a teacher about crowds of students and they will tell you a different tale that is often characterised by the polar opposite of …

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ResearchEd York 2016 – Get Your Tickets!

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley27/01/20161 Comment

It is coming back… after the success of ResearchEd York at Huntington School back in 2013, we are delighted to welcome ResearchEd back on Saturday the 9th of July, 2016. We are …

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ResearchEd York 2016 is Coming…

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley12/12/20151 Comment

  Back in May 2014, the first northern ResearchEd event was held in York, at Huntington School. In the interim, ResearchEd has hopped across the pond to New York (still not as …

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Training and Retaining Our Teachers

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley12/09/20155 Comments

There is continuous talk about the looming crisis of teacher recruitment. It will likely prove the biggest obstacle to school improvement in the coming five years. Clearly, the quality of our education …

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Teachers – ‘Read…Refine…Reflect…Repeat’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley08/08/20144 Comments

A short reading list for your reflection and refinement.   There is a apocryphal tale, attributed often to Abraham Lincoln, though it almost certainly predates America itself, about the value of ‘sharpening your axe‘. …

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NTEN ResearchEd York – Teachers Doing It For Themselves

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley04/05/20147 Comments

  I look on the NTEN ResearchEd conference at Huntington School yesterday with a glowing pride. Is there a little confirmation bias attending my feelings? Yes. And who the hell cares! It …

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Is [insert educational fad] the New Brain Gym?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley19/04/2014Leave a Comment

‘Is [Insert educational fad] the new Brain Gym?‘ is such a commonly heard refrain on social media outposts like Twitter that it has become easy shorthand for criticising dubious educational practice. Students donning …

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Evidence in Education and Building Bridges

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/03/20142 Comments

The drive for research evidence being used in education has achieved something quite radical in our time: it has been met with near universal political consensus. You won’t hear Gove or Hunt …

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Progress being made, but OFSTED are still Requiring Improvement

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley21/02/201414 Comments

(Image via http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-its-only-ofsted-17/) Over four months ago I wrote an article beginning with the question: ‘What does Ofsted want?’ I stated that this question is perhaps the most powerful question in English …

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After fifteen years in the classroom, I now support the cause of education from the other side the school gates. For most of the week I work for the EEF, as National Content Manager, supporting teachers and school leaders to access research evidence.

Additionally, I write edubooks and offer consultancy. Also, I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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